Here's the list of caps I ordered from Amazon (it's 2 years old but you should still be able to find them)

FYI, this is the update I gave 2 years ago and it's holding up perfectly.

https://adadepot.com/index.php?topic=1014.msg30024#msg30024

Well nothing happen also was gonna get a mod4 tube board nothing

Richard,

   To reply to your post in the New Speaker Day thread, I'll say that was my original idea was to get a guitar synthesizer module and run it separately from my guitar amp rig. It seems like the CG-1 Strat I bought would give me that ability. It's basically a standard MIM Stratocaster with the magnetic pickups and 1/4" output jack, but there is only a volume and tone pot for the guitar. What would normally be the 2nd tone knob is actually a volume for the synth. There is a three-way mini toggle that lets you select guitar, synth, or both. There are also two push buttons under the guitar volume knob that lets you scroll up or down the synth programs. On the side of the guitar, under the jack is a 13-pin socket to connect to your synth module. No wireless on this guitar, you're on a double leash.

Connecting the 13-pin plug into the GP-10 gives me a blend of the guitar and synth effects, albeit a limited amount of synth programs. A few of them are cool and kind of useful, and there is a good version of the GR-300 synth in this. The problem here is that if you only use the 13-pin plug, the guitars are mostly the virtual guitars that are in the pedal. There are a few programs that allow the actual guitar pickups through and have added effects with it, which is kind of why I bought it. I wanted to see how this might work as a fly rig kind of thing. It's not too shabby, but it certainly can't replace my ADA rig, or any other actual guitar amp for that matter. That is my initial impression, and that could change as I get into the editing and experiment with it more. Last Thursday, when I got it, I had my guitar plugged into my GK 250ML, and the 13-pin plug into the GP-10. The speakers in the GK were shut off, and I was running both the amp and the GP-10 into my audio interface. I found it difficult to get a good mix, since the GP-10 effects and synths were set more as background sounds to the default guitars in the pedal.

I have a feeling the GR-55 is going to be much the same process since in addition to being more guitar synth based, it is also a guitar processor like the GP-10. Essentially, it's the synth module and a VG-99 system with the COSM amp modeling and IR processors too. However, Steve Stevens uses one with his rig and it sounds killer. I've been a longtime fan of his for his imaginative use of effects in his music. What I may have to do is run these processors out to their own power amps and cabs and blend them with my guitar amp rig.

The SY-1000 seems to be a dedicated guitar synthesizer though, and of course, it's the most expensive one of the GK pickup family that will work with this guitar.

I'm probably going to pick up one of those next and give it a go. In the meantime, I'll keep experimenting with this little box and see what I can get out of it and determine what kind of application in the real world it's best suited for.

Hey Richard,

  I think we're getting a bit off topic here, so I'm going to start a new thread on what we're talking about.

Interesting fix.  I noticed the v1.41 firmware in the MP-2.  If you do source a new socket, please post the part number for it.

I am still fighting with one of my brother's MP-2s.  It is a real challenge.

Gregg

Hey Harley, I like the idea as an addition so you can make lots of interesting sounds if/when you need them.  The distorted guitar with the Godin nylon and the GR-55 was (surprisingly) passable but no where near what we get from our ADA preamps.  Also bending the nylon strings was a chore.  But if you wanted a flute  , and I suspect sax would also sound reasonable.

Hey Dante, good you fixed it  .  I'm just trying to remember (as it was ages ago I changed out a couple of displays, was there one wire that need to be soldered?

So, I'm going to go build a speaker cab out of styrofoam now, it'll be super lightweight and I don't care if I break it. haha

You gotta see his video on 'where the tone in a guitar comes from'

Richard,

I am facing something like this.....I was playing my MP-2 and it was working fine until the display started shooting wonky weird characters. The unit was still working fine, but I couldn't edit any patches or even see which patch I was on because the display was really acting up.

Now, this is a blue display, aftermarket. I still have the stock one.

I opened up the MP-2 and immediately see one of the wires from the ribbon cable is loose. I connect it by hand and the display is instantly twice as bright, so that must be a wire for the backlight, or at least half of it. Either way, that cable looks bad, it's just the display cable tho. Probably not the one you're talking about.

I will try the old stock display soon,  but I'm no hurry...I'll follow up with what i find

Hey Richard,

    The CG-1 Strat has all the electronics in it already, yes. I bought it 7 years ago because I wanted to get the GR-55, and they stopped making the CG-1 at the end of 2016.

    The more I researched what these things would do the less I was sure the GR-55 is what I want. I may still get one and learn it, but I'm thinking what I really want is the SY-1000.

    These three units are the only things that the CG-1 will plug into. I got the GP-10 just to see how it would do as a fly rig kind of thing. So far, all I'll say is it's interesting.